How to Download Hugging Face Models for Local Use?

[hamidtech]

Hi ,

I encounter an error on the first run when trying to connect to Hugging Face to download models. Due to company policies, we need to run everything locally and cannot access external servers.

Is there a way to manually download models from Hugging Face and use them offline? If so, what are the recommended implementation methods?

Any guidance or best practices would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks!

[zalastone]

easy, download the files and repackage them
https://huggingface.co/Systran/faster-whisper-large-v2
and put them in this folder in the root directory
/_models/faster-whisper-large-v2